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alwaysthiserror • yesterday at 8:33 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Serious attempts to analyze the budget with the goal of addressing over-spending generally omit Social Security, because it's paid for with a dedicated tax. Repealing Social Security entirely wouldn't do much to address the budget deficit, certainly nowhere near as much as naive "look at how bit that part of this pie graph is!" analyses suggest it would.


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rattlesnakedave • yesterday at 9:19 PM

Actually, the even more serious budget analyses than the ones you've read include Social Security

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